Listening to the confirmation hearings of the soon-to-be Attorney General, one would think that Mr. Gonzales is being confirmed as the Presidents lawyer instead of the peoples lawyer.
The Attorney General is the lawyer for the entire nation. He should not be the lap dog and lacky of a President. If the Administration is doing things that run afoul of the law it is the AG's job to stop them.
Too often this most important law enforcer is reduced to a political hack and an excuse maker. I also found Gonzales' answers to most of the serious questions to be non answers. This is hugely troubling when it concerns whether he thinks the President is above the law. According to Gonzales, the President is not above the law unless there is a really good reason. And who determines that? A weegee board, the bible, voices in Bushes head?
Lastly his refusal to comment on the legality or non-legality of the treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib is indicative of his desire to remain a loyal lapdog as opposed to the naiton's law enforcer.
To confirm this man would be yet another black mark on a nation that seems bent on suicide. I don't want to live in a pretend democratic republic. I want to live in an actual democratic republic. There is only so much law you can strip away before a nation falls. Without justice a nation cannot exist.
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